These Republicans wanted a Medicaid work requirement but couldn’t get approval. So they got creative.

Mississippi Today— Republicans in the North Carolina legislature wanted to attach a work requirement to their Medicaid expansion program. But without a path for federal approval, they found other creative ways to get Medicaid recipients working.

Mississippi Today—Blackwell: Senate won’t budge on Medicaid work requirement. Senate stance likely to delay or kill efforts to provide health coverage to about 200,000 people, as the federal government has refused to approve such work requirements for Medicaid expansion.

The Independent—Kamala Harris says Republicans ‘extremists’ either ‘don’t know or don’t care how a woman’s body works’. The vice president, speaking in Florida, accused Donald Trump of ‘gaslighting’ the country because of his changing positions on abortion

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